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Menachem Kipnis: Yiddish Folklore and Photographs from Interwar Poland

By Menachem Kipnis, Sheila E. Jelen (Editor), Raphael Finkel (Translator), Sheila E. Jelen (Contribution by)
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By Menachem Kipnis, Sheila E. Jelen (Editor), Raphael Finkel (Translator), Sheila E. Jelen (Contribution by)
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Menachem Kipnis (1878–1942) was one of the early twentieth-century’s greatest Jewish eastern European ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and photographers. He had a weekly column in the Warsaw Yiddish newspaper Haynt, retelling humorous old folk stories about the fictional Polish town of Chelm, populated exclusively by fools. At the same time, his photographs of Jewish life in eastern Europe regularly appeared in the Forverts (Forward), the most popular Yiddish daily newspaper in the United S...

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